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Please tell me the goats wear flannel and drink coffee

 

And only listen to The Mountain Goats.

 

I don't think they experience enough emotional pain to enjoy No Children

 

omg aw that sounds so adorable

 

You don't say

 

Saw an article where CNN interviewed QAnon folks (why give these people a platform?) but saw a comment that's better explaining (than I could) why people get into conspiracies in the first place...

"People like conspiracies because then it’s someone else’s fault. It makes us feel better when there’s an ‘enemy’ causing our woes, instead of it being because life isn’t fair, or you made a mistake. There’s been some studies of things like JFK conspiracies. It’s more comforting to think that it took a vast network of deep operatives to kill him, than it does to think the President is so fragile (and by extension, anyone) that a lone gunman could kill him. It's easier to think that there's a vast network of people trying to make your life miserable, than it is to realize you voted for a moron who is trying to stuff money in his pockets and fleece anyone he can."

 

“Alexa, what does a talking ball sack look like.”

 

I was kidding about the listening backwards, but you all everybody and Station 5: the pearl are direct references. I thought that some of the lyrics on the volcano album could also be taken as lost references, but nothing direct

 

ok yeah I know about the references in the album haha. was wondering about the album backwards thing.

pretty sure volcano was more lord of the flies and not Lost.

 

That’s probably just the cocaine you guys requested.

 

https://splinternews.com/the-new-york-times-really-fucked-this-one-up-1828061129

The New York Times really fucked this one up. Instead of ignoring this ridiculous complaint and letting it die — which it would have, because who the fuck cares what The Gateway Pundit is doing — they have validated it. (At least they didn’t fire her, you might say, but even responding to this garbage sets a terrible precedent and legitimizes a completely illegitimate, bad faith campaign to discredit Jeong and the Times itself.)

Now, according to the Times, it is fair to say that being rude about white people serves “to feed the vitriol that we too often see on social media,” and that her tweets represent a “type of rhetoric” at all and not just… jokes, nothingnesses, completely mundane and honestly quite boring observations that have no wider importance or meaning. Do we think Sarah Jeong actually enjoys chasing down and bullying old white men for fun? Do we think she earnestly wants to “cancel” white people? No, because that doesn’t mean anything — “cancel” doesn’t mean “do genocide to.”

 

amazing

 

Feel like “The New York Times Really Fucked This One Up” is an evergreen headline

 

Luda!

 

it's a typo, should read "White Power"